Great box, and a couple of weeks here we would destroy the leader board.

Realized last night that I forgot to pack shorts so hopped on the DLR and went to Asda at 10 pm (UK Walmart). Pretty much what you would expect at any Walmart at 10 PM Choice was a pair of jean shorts or sweat pants (size 91-104 cm). Fucking metric system. Guessed on the sweat pants and was off by about a cubit so I needed tape to hold them up. Looked like a homeless guy that peed his pants as I walked back to the hotel.

You really killed your split times for those darn quarters!! Haha jk! Great seeing you today and thanks for running with me bc you made me do a full mile instead of the half mile I would have surely quit at! 🙂 And sorry about the bathroom and giving you a heart attack too! 🙂

Happy Tuesday everyone! 🙂 So great to be back at the 5:30 with everyone! Great to see you Colleen! 🙂
1 mile run Pre-WOD
Satans Wiskers: 9:40 with 70# and thin green banded pull-ups. So good news is this is the heaviest I’ve ever done during a WOD but the bad news is is that it felt like it took me 250 years. 🙁 I just couldn’t catch my breath for some reason? But I’m happy to be getting back on my routine and to have it in the books to improve on next time. Thanks Tricia for the push on the weight and for being a great partner. Thank you also to everyone for the cheering at the end! 🙂 And Amy for the cash out running afterwards. 🙂
1 mile run post -WOD.
Have a great day everyone! 🙂

Satan’s Whiskers: 5:48 (PR of 4:38 with the same modifications) 55# front squats and kipping pullups.

Before you get all excited about that PR, the last time I did this WOD with any sort of weight on the bar was May of 2011. I’ve done it a couple of times since then, but substituted something else for the front squats because of my back.

Grocery bill for a family eating clean = $250/week (at least)
New sneaks, headbands, lulu shorts/tanks, handgrips, jump rope, new clothes, etc. = $$$$ too much to post (Greg D reads these 🙂 )
Monthly membership at CFNE = $200/month
Savings on booze, lattes, and going out to dinner/breakfast b/c it just isn’t worth the money (would rather spend it on gear above and new clothes), being able to do a real push up, an unassisted pull up, and touch my toes to a bar while hanging from it, being a stronger, fitter, healthier woman for my girls to look up to, wearing pants that are 2 to 3 sizes smaller than last September, and meeting a really great group of people all trying to make themselves better every day and having a whole lot of fun doing it = PRICELESS

WORTH.EVERY.PENNY.

Thank you to all of the coaches for your patience and guidance –special thanks to Ashley & Max for sucking me in through the elements course and to mdv, Kevin M. , Kevin, C. and Harry for your help this year. You are incredible athletes and your ability to convey the movements and make just the right tweak to each of us is true talent.

Also thanks to the crazy mayhemers for keeping me motivated to chase new goals and to “try” to keep up with all of you and to all of the members of the September elements crew (michelene and Kristin R., I’m including you in with this crew ) – you guys are awesome and so many of us are still going strong – YES!! I really don’t know if I could have stuck with this without you guys supporting me when I barely made it through wod’s (still happening) and encouraging me to continue to push myself. Really lucked out starting with such a great group!

Finally, a very special thank you to Greg D. who told me I could do this. I would see him come home literally soaked and talking about thrusting, snatching, pull ups, etc, and thought you are kidding me, babe. I don’t even know what that shit is and I haven’t exercised in pretty much three years given bed rest, nursing, two babies, etc. I could NEVER do that. I had two months left of maternity leave after Mia was born and new I needed to do something. The September elements class was just about to start and once I got into work I knew I wouldn’t want to leave the girls at night to go through elements. It was now or never so I just said, okay, I’ll see what the elements course is all about. I mean it when I say this was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It has changed my life in so many positive ways – I even like the new scares on my shins from hitting the box a couple of times.

Ben & Heather, you are doing a great thing here. I hope you lay down at night and think, wow, we have such a positive impact on so many lives and we make our living doing it. You really can’t ask for a lot more than that.

I LOVE everything about this!! 🙂 You are amazing and look incredible and I am so happy to have shared this past year with you. Keep up the incredible work pretty! I hope I am half the wife and mom you are! 🙂 xoxo

Awesome post and awesome job Tricia. Like I said this morning, you and Heather looked very hardcore finishing the WOD this morning – we’ve come a long way since last September! I really appreciate the sense of humor you bring to the class too – keep working hard and keeping it fun.

SW: 8:10 75# 35#KB for pu (still letting my hands heal). Wow, I did not think I could finish this one today (after yesterday’s WOD), thanks for the push Terri(you did awesome today) and everyone that cheered me on at the end!